Laboratory Personnel Gender and Cold Pressor Apparatus Affect Subjective Pain Reports
BACKGROUND: There is no standardized method for cold pressor pain tasks across experiments. Temperature, apparatus and aspects of experimenters vary widely among studies. It is well known that experimental pain tolerance is influenced by setting as well as the sex of the experimenter. It is not know...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2014-01-01
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Series: | Pain Research and Management |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/213950 |